Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:10:33 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> >> address@hidden
> >> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:40:45 +0200
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Translated into Emacs-speak, this means we need a variable that, when
> >> > bound to some special value, instructs the reordering engine to treat
> >> > certain characters as segment separators.
> >> 
> >> They already exist: comment-start and comment-end, for example.
> >
> > These are strings, not characters.  I meant single characters.
> 
> You can't have that.  The field separators are multi-character strings.

If all of them can be made to behave like segment separators, then
Chong's idea will still work.  If not, then it won't.